3WDevolution question

[Mark Wieder]

On 09/06/2018 01:15 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:

> I see what's happening there.  It appears the IDE team is attempting to 
> use a floating palette in a highly unusual way: rather than floating on 
> top of a document, it's assumed to be placed at the left and when it is 
> the windowBoundingRect is adjusted so that no other windows can be 
> placed in a way that overlap it.  When the tool palette is moved to any 
> other location sufficiently away from the left edge, the 
> windowBoundingRect is apparently restore to the normal bounds everyone 
> normally expects.
> 
> You will find that the IDE's change to the windowBoundingRect affects 
> all windows when using the maximize option for a window.
> 
> This affects the dragging of 4W devolution's window because I have a 
> customized appearance with my own title bar, and have scripted the 
> dragging behavior to account for the windowBoundingRect so the window 
> cannot be submarined beneath the menu bar or the Dock.

Interesting. I haven't used the tools palette for many years, but I see 
no strange interactions between PowerTools and Devolution either on 
linux or on osx. Is the built-in tools palette doing something it 
shouldn't be doing then? That sounds worthy of a bug report.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com